anläuft
[ˈanˌlɔɪ̯ft]
The verdict
“anläuft” is uncommon German (frequency #75,356 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,356
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs anlaufen
Corpus desk
Index DE-anlauft · anläuft · German
anläuft · rank #75,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,356
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Anklagepunkte
Nearest frequency peer: Anklagepunkte (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „anläuft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- angetretenen
angetretenen
24,648 corpus weight
- Anhöhen
Anhöhen
24,647 corpus weight
- Anklagepunk…
Anklagepunkte
24,646 corpus weight
- anläuft
anläuft
24,645 corpus weight
- Anonymisier…
Anonymisierung
24,644 corpus weight
- anordnet
anordnet
24,643 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „anläuft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anläuft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌlɔɪ̯ft] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „anläuft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
anläuft is uncommon German at frequency #75,356 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈanˌlɔɪ̯ft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs anlaufen".
No misspelling variants are generated for anläuft in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is anläuft, spelled A-N-L-Ä-U-F-T.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs anlaufen
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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